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I believe in the complexity of the human story.
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The psychology of the dispossessed can be truly frightening.
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A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.
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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.
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When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
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Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves
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An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
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Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.
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When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
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A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.
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The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.
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A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
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[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?
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That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.
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There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.
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People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. Is it a terrible thing to be lonely?
Carl Sandburg
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Born:
November 16, 1930
Died:
March 21, 2013
(aged 82)
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